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Paintings prove popular at auction

4:00 AM | COLONIAL collectors preferred painters at yesterday's Tullochs Auctions' annual antiques and collectables auction as a substantial watercolour work by John Glover took top dollar.

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Businesses begin mop-up after weekend deluge

4:00 AM | AMID the waft of mint-scented cleaning agent, and the hiss of an industrial steamer, Denise Callister surveyed the water-logged St Helens Hospital with a sense of familiarity yesterday morning.

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Great-aunt awesome inspiration

4:00 AM | HEART transplant recipient Mark Brewer never thought he would ski with his 98-year-old great-aunt Hilda.

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Help at hand to keep kids busy

4:00 AM | IT'S only one week until school holidays and with the winter weather setting in parents will have to be creative about how to entertain their kids.

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Cadets learn leadership skills

4:00 AM | TRACY Hanson, of Longford, became a parent helper at Launceston's Naval Cadet unit TS Tamar when his son joined as a cadet.

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Keeping it clean is basic hygiene

4:00 AM | GERMS - some fear them, others accept them as a normal part of life.

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Mother turns heartbreaking experience into positive

4:00 AM | THE MOTHER of a college student who took his life five years ago believes more needs to be done with suicide prevention in Tasmanian schools.

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State stumbles at economic hurdles

4:00 AM | AS the gap between Australia's economic fast and slow lanes continues to widen, Tasmania's most iconic industries are being pushed to the brink.

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Collector turns passion into profit

4:00 AM | DAVID Newell has managed to turn his life-long passion into a business.

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Tasmanian couple finds work model suits family life

4:00 AM | AS workers flock to the mining industry, fly in, fly out arrangements are becoming more common.

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Teach children dog safety: educator

4:00 AM | A LEADING Tasmanian dog educator is urging parents to go back to basics in dealing with the risk of dog bites, saying that tougher dangerous dog laws on its own will not solve the problem.

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Jail move tipped to save funds

4:00 AM | TASMANIA'S Justice Department believes prisoner housing costs will be lowered once Hayes Prison Farm is closed, although details about the specific savings haven't been released.

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Iran's uranium use queried

4:00 AM | VIENNA - United Nations experts are investigating why tiny particles of uranium found in an underground Iranian nuclear facility had been enriched beyond levels previously acknowledged, a discovery that raised questions about whether Iran was getting closer to creating weapons-grade material for a nuclear bomb.

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